Recent content by Fishmonster123

What do you consider to be "real platform"? Playing around with a demo on E-Futures International

Just started experimenting with ES on a demo account, and am struggling to figure out order execution. If I put in a limit order of 10 contracts, even at 9:00 AM, during decent volume, I'll only get partial fills. What is going on? Surely 10 contracts is not a lot.

Pelagos - congrats. Looks like you've figured out a way to be consistent. That's what I'm aiming for. One question - why only risk .36% per trade? Why not bump it up a small amount, to .67, or 1%. Given your results, your drawdowns would be small, right?

In Van Tharp's book, he mentions a trader who has a system with an expectancy of .5. Although his profitable trades are equal to his losing trades, he wins 75% of the time. At 5 trades a day, or about 100 trades a month, and risking 1% per trade, this guy could be making 50% every month...

Thanks fjpenney. The fact that you made 4% sort of confirms my post, I guess. I'm assuming that given the assumptions in my post, you're either risking more or using a tighter initial stop. Does that sound right? By the way, I was looking for your system on Collective 2. What is the name...

I continue to struggle to wrap my head around position sizing issues and how they relate to entries and exits. I'm wondering if anyone traded the recent Euro daily trend, and if so, how you went about making money. Did you pyramid? Did you risk 1% of your capital? And how many instruments do...

I'm curious if anyone here has any experience investing with any of these guys that have small retail funds. Thoughts, ideas, suggestions? When Mike was talking about Winton on his site a couple of weeks ago, I was looking at his Winton Global Alpha Fund (only 50K required), but it looks...

Any chance the recent rules will get changed back? I used to be able to "set and forget" by setting stops and limits beforehand. Also used to be able to go short and long at the same time. Wondering if you've heard anything about the legal landscape.

Thanks. I am not new to trading or trend following (I read all the books several years ago). I've been an unsuccessful trader up to this point, but I think that mainly has to do with trying to trade short time frames. I'm becoming more and more convinced that trend following is the way. I've...

I'm new here. I'm looking for a message board where people talk about the specifics of what they do and when they do it. Thought this would be a logical place, but in scanning the last couple of years' worth of posts, it seems like it's really more of a place for people to engage in flame...